About Ultra 8 Pictures

Ultra 8 Pictures is an independent film distribution company that acquires and brings offbeat world cinema to Canadian audiences.

Providing service deals for limited theatrical distribution and TV broadcast in Canada, Ultra 8 Picture's clients include Magnolia, Lions Gate, Koch Lorber Films, Tartan USA, Vitagraph and even Pauly Shore. In June, 2006, Ultra 8 Pictures sold Tartan USA's SAVE THE GREEN PLANET to The Movie Network, Canada's premium pay-tv channel.

Ultra 8 Pictures selects and distributes an eclectic range of critically celebrated films, including Don Coscarelli's BUBBA HO-TEP, the controversial documentary about the attempted coup in Venezuela against Hugo Chavez THE REVOLUTION WILL NOT BE TELEVISED, Takeshi Miike's AUDITION and HAPPINESS OF THE KATAKURIS, Carlos Reygada's BATTLE IN HEAVEN, A STATE OF MIND, Kim Jee-won's A TALE OF TWO SISTERS, Takeshi Shimzu's JU-ON, BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS, THE END OF THE CENTURY: THE STORY OF THE RAMONES, Kim Ki-duk's BAD GUY, LIPSTICK & DYNAMITE, and SAVE THE GREEN PLANET.

With a strong understanding of international and cult cinema, Ultra 8 Pictures also offers consulting services in areas of acquisition, production and festivals for filmmakers, producers and distributers.

Ultra 8 Pictures
253 College Street #108
Toronto, ON M5T 1R5
Canada
416-703-8364 (tel)

ultra8@sympatico.ca